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Yeah, it was borrowed from Anglo-Norman.



Which is about as close to modern English as modern Irish is.


Yep. In fact, depending on which classification scheme of the Indo-European languages you follow, it could be argued it's closer to Irish than it is to English (Italo-Celtic branching). But I was just agreeing that it did come from, essentially, a dialect of French.




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